On Writing Personal Stories, Validating Myself and Feeling Lonely

A Personal Story

My stories are my own. Sometimes, I throw in a hint of fictional names here and a dash of made up places there, but the essence of the story is same as my personal life.

It is inherent in all writers that they put their lives, or at least parts of it, in words.

This is what makes our stories ‘so-relatable’ to the people on the other side of the screen reading it.

I have been writing about my life for quite sometime now. I started writing because I wanted to see my life on paper.

Of course, when I was thirteen, my writing was more about unrequited crushes and the ever haunting question-what am I going to do with my life?

Well, I can’t say I don’t write about these stuff anymore, the latter one has gotten more repetitive in my writing, but I have moved on from these to more complicated themes such as depression, life goals, personal relationships and all the other oh-so-important stuff that keep me up at night.

Writing about my personal struggles and accomplishments, I won’t lie, validates my being. I use my stories to give myself a sense of importance. This thing that has happened to me..I am going to write about it because I feel like nobody has felt like this and I want everyone to know about how I am feeling. I validate myself with these personal stories, making myself feel more deserving of attention.

But, that is not all there is to it.

I want to share these stories with people because I don’t want to feel alone and I don’t want you to feel alone. Feeling lonely sucks and, boy, I have had my fair share of loneliness.

Before I entered the mystical land of the internet, I used to write in little notebooks with curly handwriting about how stupid and less I felt in comparison to my peers. I write about it now on the internet and share it with people like you in hopes of relating to you and getting the ‘hey, i feel that too’ comments.

Amidst these comments, I begin to feel like I am not the only one with this shit that I am dealing with. There are other people out there who have felt the exact same and maybe by interacting with them I can learn something from them and help them in return.

By writing a personal piece, I want to touch the lives of people whom I will never meet or hear from. I want to write a story that will get them through a tough day and turn their frowns upside down.

If a blog article, a short story or a poem strung with personal stories will make you feel hopeful, creative, thoughtful, or simply relatable, then I will keep on writing these personal stories.

Why do you write your stories?

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